Again I say, we are happy to be in Atlanta today, the capital of Georgia ... my birth state. I was born in this state, and grew up in this state. I was a grown man, married and the father of children even before I left this state. So don’t try and make me acquainted with Georgia. I am already acquainted with Georgia. This great city of Atlanta with its five colleges, institutions of learning, is one of America’s most important cities, and is even the gateway to the South. We thank the city for permitting us to enter it, and the courtesy of the police department, and the mayor of this great city, and the governor of the state. We are happy to be called one of your own state-borned sons. My beloved people, I am one of your brothers; I am not a foreigner, but I have a Divine Message from the Lord of the Worlds that sounds foreign to you because you have not heard it before. I want you to know that we so-called Negroes are the people who have been on this planet for trillions of years. I say so-called Negro because you are not a Negro. You are members of the Asiatic Nation, from the Tribe of Shabazz. There is no such thing as a race of Negroes. This is a false name given you during slavery by your slave master, who, after robbing you completely of your knowledge of your homeland, your parents, and your culture, called you “Negro” or Nigger because that word means something that is “NEUTER” or “NEUTRAL.” Therefore you are now a little group of people on this earth who stand out because you have become neutralized by ignorance of yourself and your own kind, and of your enemy. You are “neutral” ... not united with yourselves, among yourselves, nor are you united with your own people of your own world. Since ignorance of self and hatred of self makes you reluctant to unite with your own kind, and despite your love and worship of your slave master he will not let you unite with him ... thus you are in the middle, standing alone, neutralized by your own lack of knowledge, unacceptable to either friend or foe ... NEGROES!!! This is why you are called NEGRO. The slave master gave you this name because he understood the meaning of it, although Webster has cunningly kept you away from the true meaning of it by saying it refers to black people ... and especially the black African who has no education or independence. My dear brothers and sisters, and distinguished educators of Atlanta, you have often wondered why you had to call yourselves by this name “Negro.” It has been due to the fact that you didn’t know its origin and you didn’t know your origin. You have been asleep. You don’t know whom you are from, where you are from, where you are going, how you should stand, how you should sit ... you know nothing at all but what your slave master chooses to tell you, and since he tells you only that which will benefit himself and his own kind, you have been made into a NEUTRAL person ... a shiftless, helpless NEGRO.